People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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